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fiis power. This was a duty which I con¬
fers I perlevered in too long, until at length
I found myfclf in a dilemma^ out of which
I could hardly hope to extricate myfelf;
It would fpin out my relation to too great
a length, otherwife I’fliould now-give you
feme account in what manner the young
Lorn v/JLS educated, and paft his time during
the apparent confinement under which he
continued in my guardianfhip •, and of the
progrefs of an intimacy, a fricndfhip, and
at laft the generous pafiion which mutually
glowed in his, and the breaft of my Euge¬
nia ; but my fpirits are already too much
exhaufted to fupport me through that affeff-
ing detail: I will therefore leave the difi-
cuffion of that interefting parr of the me¬
moirs of thefe days to Lorn himfelf, who
will be capable of relating it the more em¬
phatically, that he will not fpeak from in¬
formation only, but from feelings. I (hall
therefore conclude this tedious narration bv
one other fatal proof of the tyrant’s cruelty,
which will be the more neceffary, that the
unhappy fufferer by it, being now in
England, and a nobleman not only of
great power and property, but of as att'.vte
a fpirit as any man of the country he has
fled from ; itfhall.foon be my bufinefs to
find him out, that together with him, and
the other exiles, meafures may be con-
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